Re: How did life begin?
Let stay to the point, the question is how did life start.
In the universe the size it is, and chaotic as it is, life is highly probable. I am sure as technological means improve, and we are just at the very beginning of these discoveries, we will find life in many places. I think it is more amazing that we haven't find more of it yet, although considering that we are not even scratching the surface when it comes to other planets it is understandable.
I mean really the only thing needed is a replicating molecule to occur anywhere amongst the billions and billions of collisions, between molecules and atoms, following the laws of chemistry, that would occur anywhere, billions and billions of places, billions and billions of such collisions in the period of time considered, even on earth alone. The first replicator thus accidentally formed is most likely to win and is by all definitions alive.
My bet is that there are many such replicators existing throughout the universe. The overall winner is not yet likely to be known today. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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